LETTERS: Parent group wanted to keep multiage classroom

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Jun 29, 2012 at 2:00 AM

I am a parent that was a member of the ad-hoc committee whose purpose was to collect data on multiage classrooms and the multiage classroom at Barnstable Community Horace Mann Charter Public School and present the findings to the steering committee.

Patriot Staff

I am a parent that was a member of the ad-hoc committee whose purpose was to collect data on multiage classrooms and the multiage classroom at Barnstable Community Horace Mann Charter Public School and present the findings to the steering committee. As a parent of a multiage student and co-chair of the multiage ad-hoc committee I joined the committee to seek/gather information/data about the benefits of a multiage classroom and how did attending a multiage classroom at BCHMCPS support our students success. This information/data would be present to our steering committee. What I found was our multiage program was one that was highly successful and valued by parents and students alike.

Every parent that served on the ad-hoc committee was in favor of keeping the multiage program within the walls of BCHMCPS but [there was] lack of support from those overseeing the program. The parents felt that for the program to be successful it was vital that BCHMCPS staff be on board and in favor of keeping the multiage classroom. In the end we found the support of the program was not there.

I am a strong supporter of choice in education and I hope that in the near future BCHMCPS will offer the multiage program again.

Traci Wyse Centerville

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